Feature Request: verified links

[Ambrosiani]

What

Implement a mastodon "verified link" pointing to the wordpress site / wordpress author page.

Why

increase legitimacy of the blog/author accounts

How

No idea :/

[Timothyjchambers]

Yes, this should be highly encouraged or automatically done and opted out of in the setup. You should also consider detecting if a gravatar exists for the web author, or site, and also linking and verifying to that gravatar.

[jazmichaelking]

A Mastodon "verified link" is to verify an account on a given server by referencing an external, third-party, authoritative domain, and is specific to Mastodon as a platform, it is not an ActivityPub function.

. A Wordpress account is not a Mastodon account, although it is visible on Mastodon and other platforms.

For a verified profile on Mastodon, that Wordpress account owner would need to create a second account on Mastodon, then link to it from their web site.

More likely - it seems to me - accounts created on wordpress-example.com are de facto verified, and could use the relationship object https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#connections (eg [email protected] is a participant or participantIn https://vocab.org/relationship/#participant)

This would lead to an AP Collection of authors, and they would be "verified" by their domain

In other words if I have an author account on wordpress-example.com, I am immediately verified on that domain, and federating clients should be able to discern that relationship using a standard object (and then determine if / how they might render that relationship in account summaries / profile cards etc)

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